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Chicago examiner sunday ekicb fivp cents vol viii no 30 a m sunday Chicago march 8 1908 bryan attack made johnson presidential candidate state chairman day says friends were forced to vin dicate minnesota called system's man actions of hudson and maria han cited as proofs of ne braskan's bitter fight rumors of bryan barrel ii 00,000 to be spent in state campaign to discredit his rival is charge k z inneapolis minn march 7 v â€” governor johnson would * * never have become a candi date for president as he is to-day but for the attacks of bryan men who pub licly branded him as the candidate of the system frank a day the governors pri vate secretary and the state chairman made positive statement to this effect i do not believe governor johnson would ever ha\e permitted us to put him in the race day said but for Â§ attacks made on him by bryan . they sent a man to the national mittee meeting at washington esenting minnesota who branded governor johnson as the candidate of the trusts then mr manahan coming from nebraska repeated the slander and went on to say that the governor could not carry his own state that it was for bryan and could not be taken from there was nothing for his friends to do after that but to get out and vin dicate the governor as fa - as minnesota is concerned i predict that tho state convention will be almost unanimous for governor johnson and that every one of the twenty-two dele gates to the denver convention will be for him i would not say what other states johnson might carry johnson will not talk governor johnson was asked to-day whether he was a candidate as the com mittee yesterday declared i prefer not to discuss the matter he answered the governor's position as indicated by his course up to date is that it is dot becoming for a man to make an active bid for an office of such dignity it the demo crats of minnesota waut to present his dame he will not interfere but he will not appear in the light of a suppliant for charges were made to-day that 100,000 would be spent by bryan and his sup porters to discredit johnson in minnesota and eliminate him from the race the action of the bryan men yesterday is laid by governor johnson's friends right si mr bryan's door they say that others took their cue from t t hudson and james manahan and that those two close followers of bryan would never have acted ou such an important matter without con suiting their lender it is a funny proceeding for mr bryan if he wants the harmonious support of the democratic party this fall said a minneapolis johnson man to-day bryan's course criticised he has allowed personal enemies of governor johnson to open a breach in the democratic party of this slate and to put mr bryan once more in the role of a local dictator to the democracy of other states if bryan is so sure to be nominated why doesn't he act in a way that will pro mote good feeling in the party instead of stirring up factional lights if mr bryan bad treated governor johnson as Taft did governor hughes be would have made a mighty warm spot for himself in the hearts of minnesota demo crats the johnsou men will support hlu if he is nominated of course but how dif ferent their feeling would be if he had acted in a magnanimous way democratic senators say bryan is not hurt washington d c m..rcu 7 none of the democratic senator r Â« id the action of the minnesota democratic slate comrnitteo in indorsing governor johnson serious blow to the prospects of am j bryan's uominaiion for the deucy in denver next july lie the leaders wili not discuss jhe kin for publication speakiug privnmj.v weds and keeps secret robert haley marries pretty joliet girl and keeps secret a year were boy and girl chums and be trothal had been long known to family and friends friends of robert e haley son of p c haley of eddy haley & wetten attorneys is4 la salle street were surprised to learn this week that mr haley had been mar ried over a year february 11 1907 mr haley and miss wilheimina raver mather of joliet hi were married at adrian mich mrs haley wished to finish her art and musical studies and for this reason the young pair decided to bave their wedding a secret for a time so well did they suc ceed in keeping their own counsel that no one not even their parents knew or sus pected that the ceremony had been sol emnized mr and mrs haley bad been devoted friends since childhood and their relatives have been aware of their engagement for several years though their betrothal was not generally announced the members of both families have always been well pleased at the idea of the prospective marriage a week ago mr and mrs haley divulged the secret tbey had guarded so well mr haley is one of the prominent young lawyers of the state an alumnus of the university of michigan 1902 and is en gaged in practice with the firm of which his father is a member he was formerly city attorney of joliet mrs haley is a graduate of the art institute and she studied for a year at the smith art acad emy last june she was graduated from the Chicago musical college in the depart ment of elocution she has been consid ered one of the beautiful girls of will county and her art work has won for her enviable comment mr and mrs haley will live in Chicago they are now at the stratford hotel evelyn thaw seriously ill nervous breakdown she bl?mes publicity says she is a human being new york march 7 mrs florence kvelyn nesbit thaw is seriously ill in her home 44g tark avenue the result of a general nervous breakdown inquirers at tho house to-night were informed that her condition was such as to cause grave concern two trained nurses are in constant at tendance and dr valdemar sillo has or dered that she must see no one or be dis turbed in any way mrs thaw has been in poor health ever since the beginning of the last trial of her husband to a friend who saw ber the day be fore her collapse she said with a wan smile 1 wonder if i have got to stand nil this publicity for the rest of my life while my husband's life was at stake i didn't mind it now it is beginning to set on my nerves i can't stand it much longer 1 am not a freak i am human float family of 8 from home to patrol wagon police save parents baby and five other children in flooded gage park man drives to death trolley car rescues Chicago lawn folk dike breaks at joliet the humor of the flood conditions in chi cago's outlying sections passed yesterday and grim tragedy took its place one man was drowned numerous families were rescued in boats and patrol wagons after i suffering the keenest distress and life in cage i'ark Chicago lawn and portions of irving park became almost unbearable joseph empke a farmer living west of blue island was drowned in the street within the limits of the city he was driving from blue island where he had taken his wife to a railway station he failed to see that the bridge over a slough he had crossed had been swept away iu the roaring stream the water was ten feet deep and the current was too strong for him police save marooned family half the homes in gage park are ma rooned and tradesmen yesterday with the greatest difficulty carried provisions to them in flat-bottomed skiffs and on rafts constructed of broken sidewalks which are floating about beating against the second stories of the homes one family was rescued by the police after a patrol wagon had been driven to a point fifty feet distant where the water was up to the horses necks by the use of rafts the police transferred the family to the patrol wagon in safety it was the family of john matucek 2424 west fiftieth street mr and mrs ma tucek an infant and five other children were marooned a neighbor informed the police and a wagon in charge of surgeon john egan started to the rescue without food two days the water about the house was more than five feet deep the wagon could not approach nearer than within fifty feet of the house with ropes and floating side walk boards a raft was made and the wagon tongue was used as a steering and propelling pole first mrs matucek and the baby were taken off and in turn the other little ones were rescued matucek himself remained behind because the raft broke and floated away and no other lumber could be ob tained dr egan fell into the water and was nearly drowned the family had been without food for two days as the house could not be reached m the family of h f mclaughlin 2422 fiftieth place had a similar adventure marooned with five feet of water on every side the family was carried to civilization by a groceryman who forced his horse under the lash to drag the wagon to the window though only its nostrils were above the water wades to car with family m j doherty superintendent of streets and alderman p j o'connell of the tmr ty-flrst ward made a tour in boats of the moist areas of Chicago lawn east of Chicago lawn they found niagara rap ids at western avenue and sixty-third street the water was rustling through western avenue furiously they saw andrew vanderwaagen move his whole family to a trolley car 100 yards from the house he carried them one by one wading neck deep and the car waited until the six vanderwaagens were safe aboa-d they are now installed in a dowr.iown hotel awaiting normal condi tions in irving park mud in many places four feet thick made traffic impossible gullies and ditches overflowed but in comparison with other suburbs the north west section was found fortunate hetty green was denounced about gage oldest school in Chicago is a tinder box,says official firs in mosely structure would mean 200 deaths declares barrows safeguards are planned chief horan board and build ing commission start cam paign to protect children locked doors barred windows and stair ways leading through narrow hallways in Chicago schools were discovered yester day by members of the fire department under chief horan who began an investi gation preliminary to taking measures to avert the possibility of a catastrophe sim ilar to the one at collinwood last week joint action was begun by the fire and building departments and the board of education emergency measures for ade quate are protection of chicago's school children will be made but until several school buildings are entirely reconstructed and dilapidated buildiugs torn down many anxious parents say that will not rest building laws to be changed we talked the matter over with mem bers of the board of education and chief horan of the fire department acting building commissioner knight said the records of the department show that the buildings conform to the provisions of the qrdinance but the records are on an in spection of about a year ago we intend to see that all the ordinances are lived up to and prevent conditions which wonld be a menace to the safety of the children when we and conditions which ought to be remedied but which do not conflict with the laws we will order changes and then start to revise the building ordinances so that changes can be made compulsory the committee consisting of superin tendent of schools cooley t e waters school engineer and myself appointed to carry out plans for better protection from fire in our schools is prepnred to begin work immediately school architect dwighi it rerkln*.\jtinounccd last evening hr vte'are getting rid of all the old buildings as rapidly as possible and several school buildings are now abandoned the pull man school is not being used and a new building at pullman will soon be com pleted will await inspections we presume our duty will be to await action on the part of the fire department which is assisting in the general inspec tion and then accept its suggestions with others from the building commissioner we will do everything possible to insure the safety of the lives of the children in our schools the board of education still permits the use of the mosely school michigan avenue and twenty-fourth street notwithstanding the fact that the building has been con demned by the health commissioner and the building department experts who visited the building declared it was a crime for public officials to allow the struc ture to house nearly 1,000 children calls school a tinder box the mosely school is more than a arc trap it is a tinder box chief engineer 1 w s barrows of the south side school distiet said from twenty-five years ex perience as an engineer 1 have learned that a building of this kind were it ever to get afire would burn to the ground in fifteen minutes i dare say that if a fire were started in the basement and any one of the two nar row stairways were to fill up with smoke not less than 200 pupils would be burned alive the building is finished with pine wood throughout stairways are not only narrow but five turus must be made to reach the street were the children from the four rooms on the top floor to leave in the event of fire they would meet children from the four rooms on the second floor each room has fifty children it does not require an expert inspector to see that 400 children would be in danger on a stairway four feet wide mothers to withdraw children mothers visited the mosely school yester day and many of them declared they would not permit their children to return when school opens on monday principal mark m lane asserted that he could not understand why the officials permitted doorways to swing inward the mosely school building is the oldest now in use in Chicago the ground was given to the city by wil liam 11 mosely and the building was erect ed in lsoti it has been in constant use ever since windows are broken sash frames are rotten antl parts of the exterior and interior have fallen down dilapidated woodwork can be seen throughout the building and the stairways some of which are less than three feet wide are shaky nearly 1,000 children are in attendance it is a three-story brick structure with four classrooms on each floor on the sec ond and third floors are doorways leading from classrooms which not only swing in ward but lead to a 4 by 12 foot hall but one exit for pupils with 200 children attempting to leave the top floor in the event of fire through a passageway but four feet wide there no doubt would be a crush there is no other exit and no are escapes by which the children could reach safety all the stairways are of the old winding stylo and children leaving hurriedly would be war in 24 hours if china does not yield to japan's demands japan's war lord and the weak emperor of china wu gets to washington at a critical momen washington march 7 tile ac stage reached iv the negotiations bfa^fl china and japan with war looming ominous possibility has caused diploma^j hen to discuss the question whether it l likely s"Â«w european uatiun dibj suggesh the unttrd states a.i mediator the guaeral impression appeart to m that a q iwej may he t'oev^yed m a day o^h so : y acme contiiieutal power to tokio aud^h vek n a-ikitrg if the united states wou^h be acceptable iis a njpdiator ' 'â– iuasmucli as the japanese frojenu nine chinamen to die for one murder head of hip sing tong and eight countrymen con victed in boston boston mass march 7 warry charles one of the richest and most influential chinamen in new england and eight of his countrymen all of them members of the notorious hip sing tong were convict ed to-night of murder in the first degree in the criminal superior court with warry charles as their leader and instigator they were proved to have been the chief actors in the slaying of four of their countrymen members of the on leon tong in the chinese quarter of boston on the night of august 2 last warry charles is a naturalized citizen though the alleged president of the hip sing tong lie has a white wife and they have a son who is a member of the new york police force mrs warry charles was in an anteroom of the court to-day at the close of the trial which has taken thirty days she was arranging for her husband's home coming so certain was she that he would be acquitted she had declared again and again that the charges against him were the result of a conspiracy against him be cause of murder trials of members of the on leon tongs in new york for the slay ing of members of hip sing tong in that city she sobbed when she heard the verdict and clung to her husband until he was taken away the nine defendants accepted the sen tence with true oriental stoicism unless the supreme court of the state intervenes they will be one by one led to the electric chair two steal 5,000 auto in front of theater central station detectives are searching for two well-dressed men who stole an automobile valued at 5,000 which be longed to the western motor car com pauy 1411 michigan avenue from in front of the Illinois theater last night the chauffeur saw the men turning the corner and shouted to south park policeman james o'too but the fugitives escaped shoot black hand robber in n.y bank wealthy italian and son-in law fire on three thugs and kill leader new york march 7 a baud of three black hand thugs made a daring attempt this afternoon to hold up the big italian bank of pasquale l'ati & sous 240 eliza beth street the banker and his son-in-law skilled in the use of firearms opened such a fusillade on the robbers that the leader of the gang was riddled with ballets and fell dying in front of the cashier's window the others panic-stricken fled into the street and made good their escape the wounded man was taken to st vin cent's hospital and there in the presence of a priest made confession to coroner aoritelli 1 know i am going to die and i toll the truth said be but his statement was incoherent improbable and incomplete he died without naming any accomplices pasquale l'ati the bead of the banking firm owns 140 tenement bouses and an equal number of vacant lots in tile city he is accounted the wealthiest italian iu che country for several years his wealth has at tracted the black hand fraternity and his mail has become burdened with threaten ing letters to which he has never paid any attention to-day's attack followed the receipt of one of these letters love unlocks soul of bad boy says teacher the teacher that can love the bad boy the desperately bad boy the boy who rinds it very hard to get a bath at home will find something interesting la that boy and will be able to do him jrood said mrs helen b eastman bead assistant of the wash ington school ac a meeting of the head assistants aaaociatlea yeetejnjy iu re gard to the training â– >! head assistants for princlpalshlps several ipeakea said they had no time to train or prtnclpajahips for their time was almost entirely taken up with the hearing of recitations - the mikado's ultimatum 1 release the tatsu maru 2 make full apology for ship seizure 3 pay indemnity for insult to mongolian monarchy must apologize or meet little t giant in battle Â„ pekin stands its ground i charges old foe with aiding revolutionists and refuses to pay indemnity u s may be mediator washington expects powers will call upon this country to prevent clash t.okia march 7 â€” japan is in a state of excitement to-night to-day an ultimatum was sent to china and the result of this can only be one of two things war or a complete backdown m the part of the chinese governmeih within twenty-four hours pekin is given until to-morrow to h ply china must apologize for the seiÃŸ ure of the steamer tatsu mb mi j pay an indemnity and surrender tts vessel or v ink must again enter th field .-. - h mighty little giant japan fleet and arms to mass there is no que n about be scriouj^i ness of the situation x'h ultiuu urn to-^b day was decided upon only after a long â– conference of the cabinet and it i said 1 orders already have been issued ro lmxt^m the fleer and army massed for an eme^h gency amm the tatgo uani was seizefl on r au 7nt macao on suspicion rha it ; r ral to china arms and nmiu'inition for wm revolutionaries the vessel iras i tenv canton and has been detained there spite of the protests and demands of tn japanese government the japanese official version represents the vessel as having been forcibly seized by fonr chinese gunboats while it was an chored awsitins the tide off macao the steamer ueiu actually in portuguese armed chinese sailors boarded the tatsu maru and seized some goods they grossly ill treated the crew and hauled down the japanese flaa the chinese contention the chinese contention is that the tatsu j maru intended to smuggle a cargo of arms 1 into chinese territory japan replies that the vessel held a 1 regular permit issued by the portuguese j officials enabling it to land at macao uieflfl arms and ammunition aboard which wenjm openly declared in the ship's papers arjh that therefore the case has nothing to b with th chinese customs iv.;i ; tiiui m li is understood that the pekin autjfor^b ties would have released the tatsu marih because of the reasonable doubt as jh the legality of the viceroy's proceedings coupled with the menace of japan pro i vided 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Chicago examiner sunday ekicb fivp cents vol viii no 30 a m sunday Chicago march 8 1908 bryan attack made johnson presidential candidate state chairman day says friends were forced to vin dicate minnesota called system's man actions of hudson and maria han cited as proofs of ne braskan's bitter fight rumors of bryan barrel ii 00,000 to be spent in state campaign to discredit his rival is charge k z inneapolis minn march 7 v â€” governor johnson would * * never have become a candi date for president as he is to-day but for the attacks of bryan men who pub licly branded him as the candidate of the system frank a day the governors pri vate secretary and the state chairman made positive statement to this effect i do not believe governor johnson would ever ha\e permitted us to put him in the race day said but for Â§ attacks made on him by bryan . they sent a man to the national mittee meeting at washington esenting minnesota who branded governor johnson as the candidate of the trusts then mr manahan coming from nebraska repeated the slander and went on to say that the governor could not carry his own state that it was for bryan and could not be taken from there was nothing for his friends to do after that but to get out and vin dicate the governor as fa - as minnesota is concerned i predict that tho state convention will be almost unanimous for governor johnson and that every one of the twenty-two dele gates to the denver convention will be for him i would not say what other states johnson might carry johnson will not talk governor johnson was asked to-day whether he was a candidate as the com mittee yesterday declared i prefer not to discuss the matter he answered the governor's position as indicated by his course up to date is that it is dot becoming for a man to make an active bid for an office of such dignity it the demo crats of minnesota waut to present his dame he will not interfere but he will not appear in the light of a suppliant for charges were made to-day that 100,000 would be spent by bryan and his sup porters to discredit johnson in minnesota and eliminate him from the race the action of the bryan men yesterday is laid by governor johnson's friends right si mr bryan's door they say that others took their cue from t t hudson and james manahan and that those two close followers of bryan would never have acted ou such an important matter without con suiting their lender it is a funny proceeding for mr bryan if he wants the harmonious support of the democratic party this fall said a minneapolis johnson man to-day bryan's course criticised he has allowed personal enemies of governor johnson to open a breach in the democratic party of this slate and to put mr bryan once more in the role of a local dictator to the democracy of other states if bryan is so sure to be nominated why doesn't he act in a way that will pro mote good feeling in the party instead of stirring up factional lights if mr bryan bad treated governor johnson as Taft did governor hughes be would have made a mighty warm spot for himself in the hearts of minnesota demo crats the johnsou men will support hlu if he is nominated of course but how dif ferent their feeling would be if he had acted in a magnanimous way democratic senators say bryan is not hurt washington d c m..rcu 7 none of the democratic senator r Â« id the action of the minnesota democratic slate comrnitteo in indorsing governor johnson serious blow to the prospects of am j bryan's uominaiion for the deucy in denver next july lie the leaders wili not discuss jhe kin for publication speakiug privnmj.v weds and keeps secret robert haley marries pretty joliet girl and keeps secret a year were boy and girl chums and be trothal had been long known to family and friends friends of robert e haley son of p c haley of eddy haley & wetten attorneys is4 la salle street were surprised to learn this week that mr haley had been mar ried over a year february 11 1907 mr haley and miss wilheimina raver mather of joliet hi were married at adrian mich mrs haley wished to finish her art and musical studies and for this reason the young pair decided to bave their wedding a secret for a time so well did they suc ceed in keeping their own counsel that no one not even their parents knew or sus pected that the ceremony had been sol emnized mr and mrs haley bad been devoted friends since childhood and their relatives have been aware of their engagement for several years though their betrothal was not generally announced the members of both families have always been well pleased at the idea of the prospective marriage a week ago mr and mrs haley divulged the secret tbey had guarded so well mr haley is one of the prominent young lawyers of the state an alumnus of the university of michigan 1902 and is en gaged in practice with the firm of which his father is a member he was formerly city attorney of joliet mrs haley is a graduate of the art institute and she studied for a year at the smith art acad emy last june she was graduated from the Chicago musical college in the depart ment of elocution she has been consid ered one of the beautiful girls of will county and her art work has won for her enviable comment mr and mrs haley will live in Chicago they are now at the stratford hotel evelyn thaw seriously ill nervous breakdown she bl?mes publicity says she is a human being new york march 7 mrs florence kvelyn nesbit thaw is seriously ill in her home 44g tark avenue the result of a general nervous breakdown inquirers at tho house to-night were informed that her condition was such as to cause grave concern two trained nurses are in constant at tendance and dr valdemar sillo has or dered that she must see no one or be dis turbed in any way mrs thaw has been in poor health ever since the beginning of the last trial of her husband to a friend who saw ber the day be fore her collapse she said with a wan smile 1 wonder if i have got to stand nil this publicity for the rest of my life while my husband's life was at stake i didn't mind it now it is beginning to set on my nerves i can't stand it much longer 1 am not a freak i am human float family of 8 from home to patrol wagon police save parents baby and five other children in flooded gage park man drives to death trolley car rescues Chicago lawn folk dike breaks at joliet the humor of the flood conditions in chi cago's outlying sections passed yesterday and grim tragedy took its place one man was drowned numerous families were rescued in boats and patrol wagons after i suffering the keenest distress and life in cage i'ark Chicago lawn and portions of irving park became almost unbearable joseph empke a farmer living west of blue island was drowned in the street within the limits of the city he was driving from blue island where he had taken his wife to a railway station he failed to see that the bridge over a slough he had crossed had been swept away iu the roaring stream the water was ten feet deep and the current was too strong for him police save marooned family half the homes in gage park are ma rooned and tradesmen yesterday with the greatest difficulty carried provisions to them in flat-bottomed skiffs and on rafts constructed of broken sidewalks which are floating about beating against the second stories of the homes one family was rescued by the police after a patrol wagon had been driven to a point fifty feet distant where the water was up to the horses necks by the use of rafts the police transferred the family to the patrol wagon in safety it was the family of john matucek 2424 west fiftieth street mr and mrs ma tucek an infant and five other children were marooned a neighbor informed the police and a wagon in charge of surgeon john egan started to the rescue without food two days the water about the house was more than five feet deep the wagon could not approach nearer than within fifty feet of the house with ropes and floating side walk boards a raft was made and the wagon tongue was used as a steering and propelling pole first mrs matucek and the baby were taken off and in turn the other little ones were rescued matucek himself remained behind because the raft broke and floated away and no other lumber could be ob tained dr egan fell into the water and was nearly drowned the family had been without food for two days as the house could not be reached m the family of h f mclaughlin 2422 fiftieth place had a similar adventure marooned with five feet of water on every side the family was carried to civilization by a groceryman who forced his horse under the lash to drag the wagon to the window though only its nostrils were above the water wades to car with family m j doherty superintendent of streets and alderman p j o'connell of the tmr ty-flrst ward made a tour in boats of the moist areas of Chicago lawn east of Chicago lawn they found niagara rap ids at western avenue and sixty-third street the water was rustling through western avenue furiously they saw andrew vanderwaagen move his whole family to a trolley car 100 yards from the house he carried them one by one wading neck deep and the car waited until the six vanderwaagens were safe aboa-d they are now installed in a dowr.iown hotel awaiting normal condi tions in irving park mud in many places four feet thick made traffic impossible gullies and ditches overflowed but in comparison with other suburbs the north west section was found fortunate hetty green was denounced about gage oldest school in Chicago is a tinder box,says official firs in mosely structure would mean 200 deaths declares barrows safeguards are planned chief horan board and build ing commission start cam paign to protect children locked doors barred windows and stair ways leading through narrow hallways in Chicago schools were discovered yester day by members of the fire department under chief horan who began an investi gation preliminary to taking measures to avert the possibility of a catastrophe sim ilar to the one at collinwood last week joint action was begun by the fire and building departments and the board of education emergency measures for ade quate are protection of chicago's school children will be made but until several school buildings are entirely reconstructed and dilapidated buildiugs torn down many anxious parents say that will not rest building laws to be changed we talked the matter over with mem bers of the board of education and chief horan of the fire department acting building commissioner knight said the records of the department show that the buildings conform to the provisions of the qrdinance but the records are on an in spection of about a year ago we intend to see that all the ordinances are lived up to and prevent conditions which wonld be a menace to the safety of the children when we and conditions which ought to be remedied but which do not conflict with the laws we will order changes and then start to revise the building ordinances so that changes can be made compulsory the committee consisting of superin tendent of schools cooley t e waters school engineer and myself appointed to carry out plans for better protection from fire in our schools is prepnred to begin work immediately school architect dwighi it rerkln*.\jtinounccd last evening hr vte'are getting rid of all the old buildings as rapidly as possible and several school buildings are now abandoned the pull man school is not being used and a new building at pullman will soon be com pleted will await inspections we presume our duty will be to await action on the part of the fire department which is assisting in the general inspec tion and then accept its suggestions with others from the building commissioner we will do everything possible to insure the safety of the lives of the children in our schools the board of education still permits the use of the mosely school michigan avenue and twenty-fourth street notwithstanding the fact that the building has been con demned by the health commissioner and the building department experts who visited the building declared it was a crime for public officials to allow the struc ture to house nearly 1,000 children calls school a tinder box the mosely school is more than a arc trap it is a tinder box chief engineer 1 w s barrows of the south side school distiet said from twenty-five years ex perience as an engineer 1 have learned that a building of this kind were it ever to get afire would burn to the ground in fifteen minutes i dare say that if a fire were started in the basement and any one of the two nar row stairways were to fill up with smoke not less than 200 pupils would be burned alive the building is finished with pine wood throughout stairways are not only narrow but five turus must be made to reach the street were the children from the four rooms on the top floor to leave in the event of fire they would meet children from the four rooms on the second floor each room has fifty children it does not require an expert inspector to see that 400 children would be in danger on a stairway four feet wide mothers to withdraw children mothers visited the mosely school yester day and many of them declared they would not permit their children to return when school opens on monday principal mark m lane asserted that he could not understand why the officials permitted doorways to swing inward the mosely school building is the oldest now in use in Chicago the ground was given to the city by wil liam 11 mosely and the building was erect ed in lsoti it has been in constant use ever since windows are broken sash frames are rotten antl parts of the exterior and interior have fallen down dilapidated woodwork can be seen throughout the building and the stairways some of which are less than three feet wide are shaky nearly 1,000 children are in attendance it is a three-story brick structure with four classrooms on each floor on the sec ond and third floors are doorways leading from classrooms which not only swing in ward but lead to a 4 by 12 foot hall but one exit for pupils with 200 children attempting to leave the top floor in the event of fire through a passageway but four feet wide there no doubt would be a crush there is no other exit and no are escapes by which the children could reach safety all the stairways are of the old winding stylo and children leaving hurriedly would be war in 24 hours if china does not yield to japan's demands japan's war lord and the weak emperor of china wu gets to washington at a critical momen washington march 7 tile ac stage reached iv the negotiations bfa^fl china and japan with war looming ominous possibility has caused diploma^j hen to discuss the question whether it l likely s"Â«w european uatiun dibj suggesh the unttrd states a.i mediator the guaeral impression appeart to m that a q iwej may he t'oev^yed m a day o^h so : y acme contiiieutal power to tokio aud^h vek n a-ikitrg if the united states wou^h be acceptable iis a njpdiator ' 'â– iuasmucli as the japanese frojenu nine chinamen to die for one murder head of hip sing tong and eight countrymen con victed in boston boston mass march 7 warry charles one of the richest and most influential chinamen in new england and eight of his countrymen all of them members of the notorious hip sing tong were convict ed to-night of murder in the first degree in the criminal superior court with warry charles as their leader and instigator they were proved to have been the chief actors in the slaying of four of their countrymen members of the on leon tong in the chinese quarter of boston on the night of august 2 last warry charles is a naturalized citizen though the alleged president of the hip sing tong lie has a white wife and they have a son who is a member of the new york police force mrs warry charles was in an anteroom of the court to-day at the close of the trial which has taken thirty days she was arranging for her husband's home coming so certain was she that he would be acquitted she had declared again and again that the charges against him were the result of a conspiracy against him be cause of murder trials of members of the on leon tongs in new york for the slay ing of members of hip sing tong in that city she sobbed when she heard the verdict and clung to her husband until he was taken away the nine defendants accepted the sen tence with true oriental stoicism unless the supreme court of the state intervenes they will be one by one led to the electric chair two steal 5,000 auto in front of theater central station detectives are searching for two well-dressed men who stole an automobile valued at 5,000 which be longed to the western motor car com pauy 1411 michigan avenue from in front of the Illinois theater last night the chauffeur saw the men turning the corner and shouted to south park policeman james o'too but the fugitives escaped shoot black hand robber in n.y bank wealthy italian and son-in law fire on three thugs and kill leader new york march 7 a baud of three black hand thugs made a daring attempt this afternoon to hold up the big italian bank of pasquale l'ati & sous 240 eliza beth street the banker and his son-in-law skilled in the use of firearms opened such a fusillade on the robbers that the leader of the gang was riddled with ballets and fell dying in front of the cashier's window the others panic-stricken fled into the street and made good their escape the wounded man was taken to st vin cent's hospital and there in the presence of a priest made confession to coroner aoritelli 1 know i am going to die and i toll the truth said be but his statement was incoherent improbable and incomplete he died without naming any accomplices pasquale l'ati the bead of the banking firm owns 140 tenement bouses and an equal number of vacant lots in tile city he is accounted the wealthiest italian iu che country for several years his wealth has at tracted the black hand fraternity and his mail has become burdened with threaten ing letters to which he has never paid any attention to-day's attack followed the receipt of one of these letters love unlocks soul of bad boy says teacher the teacher that can love the bad boy the desperately bad boy the boy who rinds it very hard to get a bath at home will find something interesting la that boy and will be able to do him jrood said mrs helen b eastman bead assistant of the wash ington school ac a meeting of the head assistants aaaociatlea yeetejnjy iu re gard to the training â– >! head assistants for princlpalshlps several ipeakea said they had no time to train or prtnclpajahips for their time was almost entirely taken up with the hearing of recitations - the mikado's ultimatum 1 release the tatsu maru 2 make full apology for ship seizure 3 pay indemnity for insult to mongolian monarchy must apologize or meet little t giant in battle Â„ pekin stands its ground i charges old foe with aiding revolutionists and refuses to pay indemnity u s may be mediator washington expects powers will call upon this country to prevent clash t.okia march 7 â€” japan is in a state of excitement to-night to-day an ultimatum was sent to china and the result of this can only be one of two things war or a complete backdown m the part of the chinese governmeih within twenty-four hours pekin is given until to-morrow to h ply china must apologize for the seiÃŸ ure of the steamer tatsu mb mi j pay an indemnity and surrender tts vessel or v ink must again enter th field .-. - h mighty little giant japan fleet and arms to mass there is no que n about be scriouj^i ness of the situation x'h ultiuu urn to-^b day was decided upon only after a long â– conference of the cabinet and it i said 1 orders already have been issued ro lmxt^m the fleer and army massed for an eme^h gency amm the tatgo uani was seizefl on r au 7nt macao on suspicion rha it ; r ral to china arms and nmiu'inition for wm revolutionaries the vessel iras i tenv canton and has been detained there spite of the protests and demands of tn japanese government the japanese official version represents the vessel as having been forcibly seized by fonr chinese gunboats while it was an chored awsitins the tide off macao the steamer ueiu actually in portuguese armed chinese sailors boarded the tatsu maru and seized some goods they grossly ill treated the crew and hauled down the japanese flaa the chinese contention the chinese contention is that the tatsu j maru intended to smuggle a cargo of arms 1 into chinese territory japan replies that the vessel held a 1 regular permit issued by the portuguese j officials enabling it to land at macao uieflfl arms and ammunition aboard which wenjm openly declared in the ship's papers arjh that therefore the case has nothing to b with th chinese customs iv.;i ; tiiui m li is understood that the pekin autjfor^b ties would have released the tatsu marih because of the reasonable doubt as jh the legality of the viceroy's proceedings coupled with the menace of japan pro i vided that japan would make no claim for i indemnity a japan will not resort to force in on nection with the seizure of the steamft^f tatsu unless compelled to do so by th action of china said a high authority h the foreign office to-day continued on 2d page 2d column hued on 2d page 3d coll continued on 2d page 4th column â– / * wac i Â«/ 1 i â– %/Â» / i llm i b i mm **%*-*â– *â– * b y u l i i i i ij tl i /% ll 1 1 i b weather indications ' Chicago and vicinity part iy cloudy and much colder sunday monday probably fair with slowly rising temperature fresh northwest winds becoming variable an office manager is added to the list of applicants who have been placed in good positions by the examiner employment exchange and shows his appreciation of the services rendered by writing a letter of thanks to the exchange a number of competent people are being placed in good positions every day by this exchange and if you are competent in your line and are desirous of securing a position call and tile 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